Today I want to go over what I think is a very good home/self defense carbine. I have said it many times I would rather fight with a rifle over a pistol any day and shotguns too. Let’s take a look at the MasterPiece Arms https://www.masterpiecearms.com/index2.php?cat=23 MPA 9mm for the home defense/personal protection role.

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I have done 2 other pieces for HD (home defense) rifles in the past. The Bushmaster Carbon -15 http://tacticalgunreview.com/blog/2012/10/staff-review-bushmaster-carbon-15-for-home-defense/ and the USGI .30 Carbine.http://tacticalgunreview.com/blog/2012/10/staff-review-usgi-30-carbine-for-defense-today/ Remember that before you look into buying any weapon you should consider three things. First, make sure the weapon you’re getting is right for you by trying out a few at a range, many will let you hire theirs. Second, do your research into sellers locally to check you’re getting proper eqiupment. Third, if you’ve never even fired a gun before seriously consider getting some home defense training here to make sure you know what you’re doing. I have had plenty of training from my army days, so I recently picked up this MasterPiece Arms MPA 9mm “Mac-11” rifle and I really think a lot of it.

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So let’s start with some general guidelines of what I look for in a HD rifle. The rifle must be short, lite-weight, user friendly, well made and totally reliable. It needs to be mainstream enough that accessories and parts are readily available. I want it in a caliber that is easy to find and it must fire considerably more accurately than I can with a pistol at the same range. This MPA 9mm rifle meets all that and then some.

This is not my first MPA Mac style weapon, my sixth if I remember right. I had I think four pistols before this carbine over the years and since buying this carbine I bought the Mini 9mm pistol pictured here. I have never had a malfunction of any kind over the years with any of them. I admit the Mac-10 and 11 pistols are kind of just fun “bullet wasters” but this MPA 9mm carbine brings some serious butt-kicking, defensive capability to your home.

The model I bought was the MPA9300SST. It is essentially the “mini” MPA 9mm pistol with a 16 inch barrel and solid stock. It is the side charger model which is nicer than the top cock version because you get an optics rail when it charges from the left side. It came with a forward ventilated grip that is ready to attach rails too making it a full quad-rail if you wanted. I didn’t need that much rail space but it’s there if you do.

Furthermore you get a pair of reliable, smooth feeding 35 round magazines and a light, smooth trigger that is conducive to being able to shoot accurately. One thing I love about this is additional 32 round magazines are only about $17 a piece and in this day and age that is a bargain. The 35’s are a bit more but who is ever going to need a mag change in an HD scenario when you have 35 rounds to start with? If you need more than 35 rounds for your bad guy problem then you may want to consider “advancing in the opposite direction”. So spare 32’s are good enough for me.

So summing up so far before we get into some modifications this MPA 9mm kicks ass as is. MasterPiece Arms is a great company, turning out reliable, well made defensive weapons. I’d bet you could use this the rest of your life and it would never disappoint. This is a rifle that out of the box I would trust in a life/death situation. As with most things though there are ways to make it just a tad bit better for the individual user.

Mod 1: The muzzle brake that comes from the factory seems like 100 lb’s of wasted metal. The thing is huge and weighs WAY to much. To be perfectly strait it looks stupid on the end too, sorry MPA but that’s what I think of it. That’s no problem whatsoever though. Fortunately the barrel is threaded 1/2×28 so attaching any one of a number of other 9mm brakes is no problem at all. I looked at a few and then just decided to drill out a 5.56 AR brake I had in a parts box. Problem solved. I don’t think it does much of anything anyway. By the time a 9mm gets all the way to the end of the rifle barrel there just doesn’t seem to be much left. I don’t feel any difference in recoil with or without a brake screwed on. So it’s not for effect so much as this mod is for weight and aesthetics. With the stock brake off and a new one on we shed quite a bit of nose weight and it looks much better as well.

Mod 2: The stock is too long and I’m a big dude. It would be really long for a lot of smaller framed people. Again no problem. Using an Allen wrench just loosen the single bolt clamping the butt-plate to the stock tube and remove it. Then remove the foam piece your face rests on. Simply cut off the desired amount of the metal stock tube and re-attach the foam piece (cut down as well) and then the butt-plate. Easy as that. You end up with a very comfortable easy to handle little rifle.

I cut off 4.5 inches. It’s perfect for me but something to consider. If you are the main shooter then that might be fine, I cut it off for me and then found that the little woman kept getting her face bumped because the receiver would bump her cheek during the recoil cycle. This caused her no pain as it’s not a hard kicking weapon obviously, but she said it ANNOYED her and she didn’t want to shoot it anymore…TYPICAL…she can find something wrong with any weapon known to mankind. THAT happens to annoy ME because we should endeavor to be proficient with all kinds of weapons My Dearest. I say a bump on the cheek is nothing compared to the horrors one may be subjected to in the event of a home invasion or other serious issue. I think just dealing with it honey and learning to shoot it is a better idea……but what do I know.

Back on track here the stock mod will benefit many and now the carbine’s muzzle remains closer to me than my out stretched hands with a pistol.

Mod 3: Heat shielding the barrel. The quad-rail is a solid, well made piece of gear but it has no heat shield. I also think the cap that holds it on could have been made from aluminum to lighten up a bit but whatever, it is solid and decent looking. Now for a home defense situation your fine, no worries of heat. If you’re going to run her hard though consider making a heat shield between the barrel and the quad-rail/your hands. I fiddled around with some scrap aluminum but in the end just trimmed the lips off of a set of M-4 carbine heat shields and bent them to fit up in there. They are tight and haven’t moved.

The other alternative to this is to just use a forward grip. That works too and you can run pressure switches for lights or lasers down to it too if you want.

So what we ended up with is a rifle that is considerably lighter and shorter. She now tips the scales at 6 lbs 11 ounces with sight and light and is 30.5 inches long.

I used a Streamlight TRL-1 160 lumen weapon light and a Vortex SPARC red dot with the kill flash on it. I really like this rifle. Lets get in a bit of range time and wrap up.

These groups were fired using Winchester Ranger 147 grain Law Enforcement loads. All but one were fired from 50 yards and none of it was from a rifle rest. Two were slow fire off hand and the others were fairly rapid fire from various positions I fired from cover. I think you can see this little girl is more than accurate enough for the task. I can’t fire a pistol at 50 yards and get groups anywhere near what I got from rapid firing the MPA 9mm Rifle.

Summary: Wrapping up this MasterPiece Arms MPA9033SST is awesome. I love it. It is a fearsome home defense weapon for sure. Tight into your body, accurate, quieter than your average center-fire pistol and very, very well made. The safety is right where you need it to be for quick manipulation, with the mods it handles very well and weighs little. You’ve got 35 chances in that magazine and you shouldn’t need them all. The trigger is great, the accuracy is great, this little thing just leaves very little wanting. Load this with some quality ammo designed not to over penetrate in the home and put her away for a rainy day. I can’t see the MPA 9mm Rifle letting you down.

A special thanks to Darah Smallwood of MasterPiece Arms. Not only is she an excellent customer service lady with MPA but on a more personal level she went above and beyond to support the troops in Iraq during our last pump in 06-07. I will never forget and always appreciate the lengths you went too for me and my boys. Thank you Darah, I hope your flag is still hung up somewhere.

As always thanks for reading and train often.

By: Cary Kieffer

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I just finished a piece on the MPA 9mm Carbine for home defense. http://tacticalgunreview.com/blog/2013/05/staff-review-mpa9300sst-9mm-in-the-home-defense-roll-masterpiece-arms-a-great-mac-11/ I really like that little rifle. Well this is the same gun in a pistol configuration. The MasterPiece Arms MPA930SST Mini Pistol in 9mm. Aside from obviously the barrel length and stock there are a few significant differences in this latest version of the MPA 9mm. Lets go over them.

Before we get into this I wanted to establish a use/uses for a pistol like this MPA 9mm. I called them “bullet wasters” in my previous article. That’s true and then it may not be true, depends on the user and the reasons they have one. I’ll explain.

Most people I know buy these for fun, they spray bullets from the hip or one handed “drive by shooting” style I’ll call it. That’s why I call them bullet wasters. Now if you actually aim the thing it shoots as well as any pistol I have. It just holds 35 rds and looks menacing. In the end though it is as viable a defensive weapon as any 9mm pistol is. It all depends on the operator whether this is a fun gun or serious defensive tool.

One last thing on this weapon as far as usage goes. It’s large in spite of being the “mini”. It has the “scary” to “lib-a-tards” and “dumbass-o-crats” look to it and would likely be frowned upon if you had to use it in a concealed carry scenario. I can hear the “Dem-wits” on Huffington Post crying now about how you ran around like a madman shooting everybody with the “full auto machine-gun” that should be banned when all you really did was defend your family from a violent criminal or two with a 9mm semi-auto pistol. Except maybe in a time of serious civil unrest, I would not carry this pistol as a carry gun. Simply put, you’ll look like a nut-job to all the idiots who live in this country and they may quite possibly be on your jury.

Ok, so that having been said let’s go over the differences I found compared to my Carbine version. I apparently have an older Carbine and a newer version of the pistol – learn more about pistol to carbine here.

Difference #1: The safety is a two piece deal. It has an extended control button hex bolted to the shaft going inside the gun. I’ve only been playing with this button since yesterday when it came in. I am not sure about this thing yet. It almost seems to hang up my finger when flipping the safety off and moving my finger to the trigger. It’s a minor thing. I don’t want to blow it out of proportion. Probably I am just used to the smaller older style safety and I just need a bit more time getting used to it. If I had nothing to unlearn I probably wouldn’t have even noticed it. So bigger, extended safety is the first thing I noticed. I really have nothing for or against it, it’s just different.

Difference #2: The trigger guard has been redesigned. It now has beveling and shaping to the bottom of it that spares your middle finger a whole lot of abuse. This was a God send change. Having messed with Mac style weapons for years now the trigger guard would chew the holy hell out of your middle finger. They were squared off before and were tearing off skin one layer at a time for as long as you were shooting. Many Kudo’s to whom ever fixed that!! Good job!

Difference #3: The rear sight is an adjustable unit now. Previously it was just a hole in the rear of the receiver. The sights have white outlines and are easy to see and line up. The down side to this is there is no tang sticking up on the rear of the receiver that used to be the sight. So that means there are no secondary holes to attach a single point sling too. I don’t see many (or any) MPA 9mm holsters anywhere. So I kind of wanted that hole to attach a sling too. How else would you carry it? If you have an idea please let us know. I will be looking for a way to get a single point sling mounted to this. Once I figure that one out I will update you.

Difference #4: The magazine release is extended now as well. It looks to be made from some kind of plastic. I have reservations on this change too. First I think it seems like it is extended too far. I wonder if it would easily be bumped and drop your magazine?? I also wonder if it is going to take any kind of impact?? It sticks out quite a bit, seems to me it could easily be broken off. Perhaps this should have been made from metal. I don’t know yet on this, and I won’t know for awhile. This is one of those things that will take some time and use to see if I like it or not. I will say I trust that MasterPiece Arms turns out a great product. I have confidence in them and if they are doing this I have to believe some thought went into it and they decided it was for the better. Time will tell on the mag release. It does help speed up your mag change but if it is prone to breaking or releasing the mag accidentally then I’ll stick with the old style.

That’s it for the changes. Summing up the latest model of the MPA 9mm pistol exudes all the quality of any gun they ever made. I think the thing looks great. I have the reservations I mentioned but time will tell if they turn out to be anything real or not. It came NIB with two 35rd mags, a barrel extension and some paperwork. It also has a nasty looking muzzle brake on it. When I say nasty I mean it in a good way. It has several sharp teeth on the front as well as plenty of recoil reducing ports. I love a muzzle brake with nasty, pain inflicting teeth. 🙂 Enough conjecture, let’s get out there and bust some caps.

Shooting: I decided to test the MPA 9mm against my XD-Subcompact because of similar barrel lengths. I expected the XD to group better. It did NOT! I was pretty surprised by that. One of the XD groups was terrible in fact. It’s pictured here and was 3.5 inches wide and almost 4 inches tall at 25 yards. Kind of embarrassing. I really didn’t even want to post it but that’s what happened. “TGR your source for unbiased reviews” so there it is. You can review the groups, some at 35 feet and some are 25 yards. All have a description of which gun it was and range/ammo. The MPA 9mm fired better than the XD through the entire course of the afternoon. MasterPiece Arm’s doesn’t make junk that is for sure.

Summary: I bought this just because it makes a nice pair with the MPA 9mm Carbine. It clearly needs a sight adjustment but that is fine the sights are fully adjustable. It shoots strait and with total reliability. I didn’t expect anything less from MPA.

The safety was better for me out on the range as I got used to the different button in no time. With further research I found a metal mag release button here http://www.usmachinegun.com/proddetail.php?prod=MSA-0127 I intend to buy this and then I won’t worry about that anymore.

The sling issue can be addressed with this part here: http://www.usmachinegun.com/proddetail.php?prod=MPA9-RASL

Spare magazines can (maybe) be had cheaply at either of these 2 links depending if you want 32 rd mags or 35 rounders. Both are out of stock at the time of writing but have low prices for when they get another shipment.

All in all for a fun gun or a HD weapon I think this works out just fine. It is user friendly and I like it. I said before I wouldn’t carry it but I am happy to have it at home to go with my rifle. For $404 I think I did just fine here.

As always thanks for reading and train often.

By: Cary Kieffer

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